National Eye Institute (NEI) Director Michael F. Chiang, M.D., started his position during a strange time: In November 2020, protests...
Meet the Director
Nora Volkow, M.D., has been the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) since May 2003. NIDA supports...
Meet the Director
An NIH-funded study called Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT), has been shown to support healthy weight...
Child Development
Jon R. Lorsch, PhD, has been the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) since August 2013. In...
Meet the Director
Thanks to new research, children with the rare childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma, or RMS, may be able to receive more targeted...
Cancer in Children
The survival rate for children diagnosed with cancer has risen from just 10% in the 1950s to nearly 85% today. That's...
Cancer in Children
Gestational diabetes is a disease that develops during pregnancy and affects how the body turns food into energy. In the...
Pregnancy
Andrea Edlow, M.D., is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. When COVID-19 hit, her lab began researching...
COVID-19
In 1971, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act as part of the War on Cancer. In honor of the act...
Cancer
Pregnant people are at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 compared with nonpregnant people. Andrea Edlow, M.D.,...
COVID-19
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is excited to work with the National Library of Medicine...
Pregnancy
Christina Annunziata, M.D., Ph.D., has dedicated most of her career to studying ovarian cancer with the aim of...
Ovarian Cancer
Many children and young athletes rival grown-ups with their skill and strength in the sports they play competitively. That makes...
Kids Sports Injuries
To prevent sports injuries, kids need to get plenty of rest, play a variety of sports, and follow the rules...
Kids Sports Injuries
In addition to researching joint and bone health in young athletes, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin...
Juvenile Arthritis
Of the roughly 3 million people with epilepsy in the U.S., about 30% still have seizures despite being on medication. That...
Epilepsy
"We've been emphasizing all along the need to take care of yourself physically, meaning eat right and sleep right...
Mental Health
Though the COVID-19 vaccine is an important tool in stopping the spread of the virus, treatments are still essential to...
COVID-19
Racial and ethnic minority communities in the U.S. are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, meaning they have been hit harder...
COVID-19
Vaccines work by teaching your body's immune system to recognize and fight back against germs, such as a virus,...
COVID-19
